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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
I think calling someone a racist based on 1 incident is unfair, especially one when it was used to describe a type of music and not calling a person that. Being racially insensitive might be completely stupid, but it doesn't necessarily make you a racist.
A racist is someone who believes they are superior due to their race and/or discriminates or hates based on race.
The N-word is a terrible word and shouldn't be used, and I fully believe Peters should be out on his ass. But, I do think people are going to far in calling him a racist.
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He didn't just "use it to describe a type of music" though. He used it to describe "a type of person" (ie, black people who started hip hop and of course the individual black person who happened to be listening to hip hop at the time). I have no idea what his reason for doing so was. No one but Bill Peters knows his reasons for doing so. All any one else can do is draw inferences from what he said and the circumstances in which he said it. At this point, I think its a pretty reasonable inference that Bill Peters had some repulsive attitudes, whether consciously or unconsciously, regarding race at the time he made the statements.